Paris, France/paris5-020
Previous | Home | NextThis is the crossing the bridge over the Seine into Sèvres ("Pont de Sèvres" = "Bridge of Sèvres"). Sèvres is important because of the Musée National de Ceramique (National Ceramic Museum) and because Marie Curie taught at a girls' school here 1900-1906. The National Ceramic Museum is the building to the left, in front of the wooded hill. The wooded hill itself, 200 meters on the other side of the National Ceramic Museum, hides the The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (International Bureau of Weights and Measures), located in the Pavillon de Breteuil in Sèvres, which keeps the measurement standards of the International System of Units (SI): the standard kilogram, atomic clocks, and other metrological devices. (We will not be visiting the The International Bureau of Weights and Measures).
